Workshop: Artificial Languages in the Linguist’s Toolbox We are delighted to invite you to attend the second workshop of the EXREAN project* at the Freie Universität Berlin which will explore the application of artificial languages as a tool in linguistic research. Artificial language learning experiments test how far language users can extract rule-like generalizations from structured input (Culbertson, 2023). Since Reber’s (1967) seminal artificial grammar (AG) study, which aimed at inve

Abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) should be sent to Natalia Levshina (natalia.levshina@ru.nl) and Nicole Katzir (nicole.katzir@gmail.com) by November 10th. Large Language Models (LLMs) are models with billions of parameters, trained on vast amounts of text data to learn statistical patterns in language, and able to generate, process, and predict human(-like) text. As discussions at the recent SLE meeting and other venues demonstrate, the rise of LLMs has major consequences for

The American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) conference will take place 18-19 April 2026 at the University of Florida. The extended deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentations, posters, or workshops is 30 September 2025. Our plenary speakers are Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK), Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon), Kenji Sagae (UC Davis), and Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto). More information, including a link for abstract submission, is here: h

Convenors: Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Mohammed V University & Linguistic Society of Morocco) Peter Hallman (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) Key words: Arabic/Semitic lexicon, root/template morphosyntax, allosemy, acquisition Meeting Description: In light of the enthusiastic and successful reception of the first SLE Workshop on the Arabic (Semitic) Lexicon, held at the 57th SLE Meeting at Helsinki, 2024, and sustained interest in developing descriptive, typologi

We are pleased to announce the upcoming 14th edition of our conference Language of the Third Millennium, to be held on 18-20 March 2026.The conference aims to create a forum dedicated to the exploration of the interplay of modes—linguistic, visual, gestural, spatial, aural, and beyond—in meaning-making processes across a wide range of communicative contexts The importance of multimodality becomes evident in everyday life, strongly tied to dynamic media contexts and influenced by the online en

Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) conferences bring together researchers sharing a socially and interactionally situated view of language use, L2 learning and L2 interactional competence development. We hereby invite researchers at all career levels who draw on the principles of ethnomethodology, (multimodal) conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis, usage-based linguistics and related approaches to present their research on how L2/multilingu

According to Natural Morphology (e.g., Dressler 2005), the most natural morphological constructions are those based on constructional iconicity, i.e.,constructions in which more meaning is represented by more form. From this point of view, concatenative morphology is natural and typical, while non-concatenative morphology can be perceived as atypical, deviating from the standard types of word-formation in the languages of the world (see also Štekauer, Valera, and Körtvélyessy 2012). The types of

The conference is an open forum for scholars interested in exploring empirically topics and issues in Arabic applied linguistics. The topics of the conference cover three main strands: I. Topics which deal with Arabic second language acquisition (SLA). Current approaches for investigating the different aspects (phonology, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, etc.) of Arabic SLA include but not limited to: - Formal (generative, functional, typological) - Cog

We are delighted to announce that we are now receiving submissions for our symposium entitled “Pushing the boundaries of linguistic categorisation”. This symposium is organised by both the CELISO, Sorbonne University and the CREA, Paris Nanterre University. It will take place on Friday the 10th of April 2026 starting at 9 AM at the Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne University, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris (room D323). The importance of categorisation as a cognitive operation cannot be overstat

[German underneath] The Association of Emerging Linguists invites young and/or student linguists to participate in the Emerging Linguists Workshop at the 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference. This year, the Emerging Linguists Workshop is being organised as part of a course at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (but attendance at the course is not a prerequisite for participation in the workshop!). The Association of Emerging Linguists (EL) consists of students, graduates and those int

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Luke Fleming (University of Montreal) The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual conference that brings together scholars from around the world who study the social life of language. We are now accepting submissions for SALSA XXX, which will take place January 16-17, 2026. The deadline for submissions is October 6, 2025. One panel at this year’s conference will be devoted to the theme “Taboo and Transgression.” For the other panels, we welcome

Convenors: Vladimir Panov, Vilnius University (vladimir.panov@flf.vu.lt); Maria Khachaturyan, CNRS/University of Helsinki (maria.khachaturyan@helsinki.fi); Pavel Ozerov, University of Innsbruck (pavel.ozerov@uibk.ac.at) Workshop Description: The goal of this workshop is to lay the groundwork for an utterance/TCU-oriented typology. Departing from the traditional clause-based model of cross-linguistic variation, we aim to uncover the fundamental syntactic patterns of spoken discourse and the t

The Young Researchers Group of Center of Linguistics NOVA University Lisbon (CLUNL) is pleased to announce that the 20th Forum for Linguistic Sharing will take place on 17–18 April 2026, in a hybrid format (on-site and online). This Forum provides a space for young researchers in Linguistics to present and discuss their work among peers. This year, in addition to oral communications by Master’s and PhD students, undergraduate students are also invited to submit proposals for short oral presen

We are excited to announce that the 2025 International Joint Conference of APLX, ETA34, and TESPA will be held on November 6–8, 2025 at the GIS Taipei Tech Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan, with pre-conference workshops scheduled for November 6, 2025 (details to be announced shortly). This conference is jointly organized by the Department of English at National Taipei University of Technology, the English Teachers’ Association-Republic of China (ETA-ROC), and the Taiwan ESP Association (TESPA).

We invite you to the 2025 Nigerian Pidgin conference (Naijá na Sẹlẹnsé conference). Mode: Hybrid (in-person and virtual) Conference Language: English & Nigerian Pidgin Venue: PIFA Hall, Distance Learning Centre, Ajibode Extension, University of Ibadan Click on the Google Form link below to register & pick an area of interest: https://forms.gle/ujZJu9Jd1CdjwwJv7 Naijá na Selense! For more information, email: naijanaselenseconference2025@gmail.com or call Dr. Aggy +234 8034446270

Healthcare delivery in most African countries is done in official languages which for the most part are colonial. Cameroon for example has 283 languages (Eberhard, Simons and Fennig, 2023) with an Official bilingual (English and French) policy which government thrusts ferociously with little or no realistic sociolinguistic foundation. Many other African countries have adopted colonial languages as official languages (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, etc. depending on whom their colonial mas

Convenors: Lívia Körtvelyessy and Thomas Van Hoey Workshop title: When Sounds Speak: Toward a Typology of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity Abstract: The idea of sound symbolism or iconicity as “inmost, natural similarity association[s] between sound and meaning” (Jakobson and Waugh 2002: 182) in onomatopoeia and, more broadly, in ideophones, has a long tradition. As noted by Akita, “the large majority of studies agree that languages involve sound symbolism, and speakers of the languages ca

Organised by Laure Lansari, Florent Moncomble & Océane Foubert New modes of discourse have emerged over the last twenty years, linked to a number of technological innovations. These modes of discourse are sometimes referred to as ‘technodiscourses’, which call into question the traditional dichotomy between written and oral communication. Linguists have gradually taken an interest in these technodiscourses, which raise important methodological and theoretical questions, forcing the field of l

A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in Georg-August-University Göttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session. Invited Speakers:

The Faculty of Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, the Korneli Kekelidze National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia, and the State Language Department will hold an international interdisciplinary academic conference in honor of Academician Mzekala Shanidze – “Mzekala Shanidze – 100” on January 16-17, 2026. Those wishing to participate in the conference must submit their abstracts by December 5, 2025, to the email address: confe